Creation of a WebQuest - Using Technology in your Teaching
Now that you have spent some time looking at how WebQuests are built and what makes them a WebQuest we can begin to think about how we can build them.
There are multiple sites that you can go to and sign up for with free trials or pay services or you can simply find a site that has free web hosting and build your own template or design for your webquest. Often times your school will host your webquest if you can design it. These are some samples of places you can go to build your own WebQuest
From this point you can then move into the actual creation of the rest of your webquest. (Handout)
You will need to create the Process, The Evaluation, The Conclusion and the Teacher Resources Pages to your WebQuest. You can find more information about this on the WebQuest Design Process hand out that you will be given or will be available on the In-Service webpage.
For the Process, a good WebQuest will use group work to bring students together to share their knowledge and to solve problems together. Good group work will consist of students working interpedently to create the groups overall project.
Good WebQuest Processes will include useful links students can follow to help them. These can be to internet sites, worksheets to be filled in or research guides to help them complete their work.
A rubric is the most commonly used way to evaluate a WebQuest and the concept of the Webquest lends itself well to the use of a Rubric.
After this point the sky is the limit. Building WebQuests should challenge both you as the educator to create something fun and exciting as well as making you challenge your students to work up to your expectations for the assignment.
(A Podcast of this material is available on the WebQuest Resources Page)
Now that you have spent some time looking at how WebQuests are built and what makes them a WebQuest we can begin to think about how we can build them.
There are multiple sites that you can go to and sign up for with free trials or pay services or you can simply find a site that has free web hosting and build your own template or design for your webquest. Often times your school will host your webquest if you can design it. These are some samples of places you can go to build your own WebQuest
http://www.questgarden.org (30 Day Free Trial, $20.00 for 2 Years)
http://sites.google.com (Google Hosted Sites, Free to sign up for a Google Account)
Where do you begin?
The first step in actually creating your own WebQuest is to come up with a task.
What are you going to have students do?
Are they going to make a book, poster, debate or other kind of complex analysis?
These two websites are great resources to show you the educator what kind of tasks there are for creation in your WebQuest:
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/all.htm
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html
From this point you can then move into the actual creation of the rest of your webquest. (Handout)
You will need to create the Process, The Evaluation, The Conclusion and the Teacher Resources Pages to your WebQuest. You can find more information about this on the WebQuest Design Process hand out that you will be given or will be available on the In-Service webpage.
For the Process, a good WebQuest will use group work to bring students together to share their knowledge and to solve problems together. Good group work will consist of students working interpedently to create the groups overall project.
Good WebQuest Processes will include useful links students can follow to help them. These can be to internet sites, worksheets to be filled in or research guides to help them complete their work.
A rubric is the most commonly used way to evaluate a WebQuest and the concept of the Webquest lends itself well to the use of a Rubric.
After this point the sky is the limit. Building WebQuests should challenge both you as the educator to create something fun and exciting as well as making you challenge your students to work up to your expectations for the assignment.
(A Podcast of this material is available on the WebQuest Resources Page)